Friday, February 1, 2013

DharmaQuiz Session 193: 1-Feb-2013

Theme: When a Hindu Dies...

Source: Realpagan

If a Hindu infant dies, is it usually cremated or buried? #DharmaQuiz 1326. Ans: Buried. Most likely because the babies are considered pure of all sins and the soul is still unattached to the physical body. Burning the body is needed to liberate the soul from the attachment of the physical body.

After cremation of a Hindu, ash is collected & immersed in a river. Along with ash, what else is a part of this immersion? #DharmaQuiz 1327. Ans: Bone remains.

Yearly, during memorial or Shraddha of a dead Hindu, rice balls are offered to spirit of dead person. What r they called? #DharmaQuiz 1328. Ans: Rice balls are called Pinda

When it comes to after death ritual, what is common between Romans & Vikings of Europe, and Hindus & Sikhs of India? #DharmaQuiz 1329. Ans: Funeral Pyre. Hindus and Sikhs burn on the ground. Vikings used to burn the dead bodies on specially created boats.

{Final, Open till 10 PM} When a Hindu Sanyasi or Ascetic dies, is the body cremated or buried?

{Optional: Do you know why?} #DharmaQuiz 1330. Ans: Buried in sitting position, with a Samadhi constructed around the place. Symbolically, a Sanyasi casts his physical body into fire by wearing SAFFRON robes when entering this phase, signifying purification of body through fire, thus freeing the soul WHILE the body is still alive. Hence, sannyasis are not cremated after death as most Hindus are, but may instead be buried. Rarely, Jala samadhi or water burial. See below for additional explanations by Dharma Quiz patrons.

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Why Sanyasis are buried? Some viewpoints by participants:

Sharmistha Nandy: Buried in Padmasana. Padmasana is a yoga posture. Cos they believe in reincarnation.

Manjusha: Buried because Sadhus and Sanyasis are detached from the world and they have no attachment to their body. .

Guruprasad Bhat: The reason is when they take Sanyasa, they perform their own (n parents') Shraddha and their "Shikha" is cut off. As they are treated as dead once, they either take Jal-Samadhi or are Buried (sometime, even ALIVE)!

Tiwari Anand Dr.: Buried as coz of Tapa all gunas are already burnt

GP: Buried..with the Brahma Randra opened (actually it is not prescribed in the shastras to do this...but their heads ar smashed)

Himanshu Sharma: Buried.coz it is blvd that the soul(atma) of sanyasi has no longing or affection for the body (sarir).

Andal : Sanyasi wears saffron robes which means he is purified by agni. So he is buried.

Rahul Ghildiyal : Why?-Spiritual knowledge already purified them & they have already completed these rites prior to their death.

Santhosh T : I stumbled across another answer. Sanyasis are detached from the world and they have no attachment to their body. Self realization attained by them makes the body irrelevant to them when alive. Cremation is thus unnecessary.

Divine Illumination : He is Burried in a Sitting Yoga Position as he is considered an illuminated being.

T Chaudhuri : An ascetic is buried as his body is pure & the spiritual aura in his body will have beneficial effect on ppl coming to the samadhi.

Rajesh gupta : Sanyasi is buried because sanyasi's atma don't have attachment to body, so their is no risk for his or her soul to wander.i suppose